ABSTRACT
Table 1.1 Founding the British university observatories which researched before 1939
Founded Principal Initiator
Radcliffe 1772 Thomas Hornsby, Savilian Professor
Dunsink 1783 Francis Andrews, Provost of Trinity College
Cambridge 1820 George Peacock (and colleagues)
Glasgow Macfarlane 1751-57 Robert Dick, Prof. of Nat. Phil., and the Faculty of Arts
Glasgow Horselethill 1838 John P. Nichol, Prof. of Practical Astronomy (and a civic initiative)
Durham 1840 Temple Chevallier, Prof. of Maths
University of Oxford 1873 Charles Pritchard, Savilian Professor (with the Prof. of Geology) and W. De La Rue
London Mill Hill 1924 Louis N.G. Filon, Prof. of Applied Maths
Sources: From Chapters 1, 2 and 4.